Introduction: warfare, history and gender Marilyn Lake and Joy Damousi

Part I. Femininities: 1. Heroines and heroes: sexual mythology in Australia 1914-1918 Carmel Shute

2. Day mothers and night sisters: World War I nurses and sexuality Katie Holmes

3. Female desires: the meaning of World War II Marilyn Lake

4. Lesbians and loose women: female sexuality and the women's services during World War II Ruth Ford

5. Consuming passions: romance and consumerism during World War II Lyn Finch

6. Remembering romance: memory, gender and World War II Kate Darian-Smith

Part II. Masculinities: 7. A crisis of masculinity? Australian military manhood in the Great War Alistair Thomson

8. The gendered battlefield: sex and death in Gallipoli, Rose Lucas

9. The gendered figuring of the dysfunctional serviceman in the discourses of military psychiatry Joseph Pugliese

10. In a cloud of lust: black GIs and sex in World War II Kay Saunders

11. Return home: war, masculinity and repatriation Stephen Garton

12. Comrades-in-arms: World War II and male homosexuality in Australia Garry Wotherspoon

13. A bit of the other: touring Vietnam Robin Gerster

Part III. Mobilisations: 14. 'All the passion of our womanhood': Margaret Thorp and the Battle of the Brisbane School of Arts Raymond Evans

15. Socialist women and gendered space: anti-conscription and anti-war campaigns 1914-1918 Joy Damousi

17. Feminists, food and the fair price: the cost-of-living demonstrations in Melbourne, August-September 1917 Judith Smart

18. 'Shut up, you bourgeois bitch': sexual identity and political action in the anti-Vietnam war movement Ann Curthoys

Contributors

Index.